The good and the bad, emphasis on Trib and Sun-Times
Can’t do better on the subject:
After his Carolina Panthers lost the Super Bowl on Sunday, NFL MVP Cam Newton pouted through the postgame news conference, giving petulant answers and walking out of the interview early.
Two days later, he doubled down, channeling his inner Donald Trump by saying, “Who likes to lose? You show me a good loser and I’m going to show you a loser.”
But losing this way makes you a loser.
Source: Cam Newton and the perils of being a sore loser – Chicago Tribune
Is this guy sold on himself, or what?
Vox calls last night’s Trump win a terrifying moment in American politics. “This is the harshest thing I’ve ever written about a major presidential candidate. But it’s deserved,” insists Ezra Klein there.
He measures terrifying moments by what he’s written. We care what he’s written!
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This Super Bowl was not one for the ages, and after the game the quarterback appeared sour and petulant. [Because he was petulant!]
If he had won, he’d have been struttin’, of course.
Source: Cam Newton, Face of Panthers, Showed Zero Grace in Defeat – The New York Times
Chi Trib’s Steve Chapman thinks this guy has it right:
Hoover Institution economist John Cochrane thinks [economic growth] is of paramount importance. “Once you start thinking about growth,” he says, “you have trouble thinking about anything else.”
Chapman is right. There seems to be not a problem that growth doesn’t solve or greatly lessen.
The German Catholic Church called for a reduction in the influx of refugees arriving in Germany, saying the country cannot take in “all the world’s needy,” according to an interview published Saturday.
Germany has been struggling to cope with 1.1 million asylum seekers that arrived in 2015 and Berlin has not yet given an official estimate for how many it expects this year.
“As a church we say that we need a reduction in the number of refugees,” Cardinal Reinhard Marx, chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference, told the Passauer Neue Presse daily.
Germany cannot “take in all the world’s needy,” Marx added.
The question of how to respond to the migrant crisis, he asserted, should not solely be a matter of “charity but also reason.”
Not cleared with the Pope, we presume.
Because the DC Media believe it is a powerful weapon that benefits Democrats, nothing will ever stop them from using it.
But if this same media truly believed in science and objectivity, the results in Iowa would forever end their relentless smears against conservatives as racists.
Tuesday night, one of the whitest and most conservative states in the country — Iowa — gave 60% of the Republican vote to two Hispanics and a black man.
This beats any of Obama’s miracles.
Blithe Spirit 